Anna Kirstine Brøndum was born in Skagen, Denmark the daughter of Erik Andersen Brøndum (1820-1890) and Ane Hedvig Møller (1826-1916). Anna Ancher was the only one of the Skagen Painters who was actually born and grew up in this northernmost area of Jutland. Her father owned the Brøndums Hotel in Skagen. The artistic talent of Anna Ancher became obvious at an early age and she grew acquainted with pictorial art via the many artists who settled to paint in Skagen.

While she studied drawing for 3 years at the Vilhelm Kyhn College of Painting College of Painting in Copenhagen, she developed her own style and was a pioneer in observing the interplay of different colours in natural light. She also studied drawing in Paris at the atelier of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes along with Marie Triepcke, who would marry Peder Severin Krøyer, another Skagen painter. In 1880 she married fellow painter Michael Ancher, whom she met in Skagen. They had one daughter, Helga Ancher. Despite pressure from society that married women should devote themselves to household duties, she continued painting after marriage.

Anna Ancher is considered to be one of the great Danish pictorial artists by virtue of her abilities as a character painter and colourist.

Anna Margit born Sichermann (1913–1991) was a twentieth century Hungarian painter.

She attended Vaszary's school from 1932-1936 and she travelled to Paris with her husband, Imre Ámos, also a painter in 1937. There they met Chagall and his influence can be seen in her early work.

Anna's early period was similar to Imre Ámos's art with lyric presentation with grotesque elements which characterize her paintings.

Following the death of her husband in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944 her style became harsher and more elemental and from 1945-1948, a new motif appeared in her pictures of puppets symbolizing man exposed to history.

After 1949, she could not take part in art life for a long time but she began to paint again in the mid-1960s. Her pictures symbolized suppressed tragedy such as Pleasure Ride, (1967), and innocence Tale (1964) with surreal and expressive metamorphoses of the puppet motif.

Marguerite Zorach (née Thompson) (1887 - 1968) was an American fauvist painter, textile artist and graphic designer and was an early exponent of modernism in America, she won the Logan Medal of the arts.

Marguerite Thompson Zorach produced most of her innovative work from shortly after her first arrival in Paris in 1908 until 1920. This was a period of experimentation with style and technique, and Zorach successfully integrated color strategies then being developed in Paris into her own style.

Upon her return to the United States, Thompson actively promoted Modernism with avant-garde writers and artists in New York and New England.

Her style developed and included more Cubist structure until she turned to creating embroidered tapestries after the birth of her two children. While she continued to paint and assist her husband, William Zorach, on larger projects, her main focus was on these tapestries. She completed two WPA murals for the Fresno post office.

Another series I buoyed, enlarge and continue from facebook. It once allowed me to discover some very interesting things about books, literature, libraries, writers and other art forms associated with all this. I am an avid reader since childhood / adolescence and my background as an aspiring librarian had leave that lovely cultural limpet through which anything related to the world of books caught my attention. So here I share with you, to stimulate interest and / or delight all the interested people. And as always, contributions, suggestions, criticisms and praise (these yes, moderate :-) will be welcome. Let's go...

Mladen Penev is a photographer and graphic designer born in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1980. I discovered it casually as a result of this campaign "The Power of Books" he did for the University of Applied Arts in Vienna , where he graduated in 2005.

In his website you can see more of his work, and there are very interesting things. I add to the posters of the series I shared before some of the images presented in the Projects section.

Gurbuz Doğan Ekşioğlu (who signs his work as Gurbuz) is a Turkish artist and graphic designer born in 1954 in Mesudiye, Ordu province.

He studied graphic studies at the State College of Fine Arts in Istanbul (now Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University), where he continues teaching classes as an assistant professor.

Gurbuz has been drawing illustrations and cartoons since 1977 and now has a total of 64 awards, 23 of which are international. He has participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions and has also had solo exhibitions at several places, including one in New York.

His works convey a universe between surreal and poetic, and as we can see he pay attention to books and libraries.

Finally this beautiful picture that I copy from the facebook wall of the "Unione Lettori Italiani Campobasso" which brings me my good friend Domenico. I'll pick more for my own collection in the future, but for now those interested can find this association on its website and through its space on facebook.

Swiss-Italian, born in 1971, educated in Italy and Switzerland, where he lives and works as an graphic designer and a photographer. This provides him the perfect frame and background to invent, create and totally produce images that blend fine arts and craftsmanship.

No, not simply images, as Christian Tagliavini loves designing stories with open endings (requiring observer’s complicity) on unexplored themes or unusual concepts, featuring uncommon people with their lives and their thoughts made visible. This rich and exciting collision of circumstances results in photos as a final product.

Reviewing stuff in the boundless world of blogs, I came across this blog introduced as "Canela Fina" of Lula Mae from Barcelona, captioning, "Reflections of a cosmopolitan addicted to Muxart shoes." I must say that shoes are the least interested me (already the clothing I worry quite little), but in this case I have drawn attention to a couple of outfits that I would share for its originality.

So far, samples of surrealist work by footwear designer Kobi Levi graduated from the Academy of Art and Design Bezalel in Jerusalem (Occupied Palestine) in 2001.And these other "theoretical models" with floral designs for feet, that I have found particularly successful, are the work of Michel Tcherevkoff. About this subject Lula wrote in her blog: "Each piece is created from a single species of flower; Tcherevkoff manipulates and uses all parts of it, from the stem to the flower. Then he makes use of Photoshop to achieve the desired result, in this case, wonderful stilettos only fit to be admired."

“Taking pictures of something that just exists was never interesting to me,” says Michel Tcherevkoff. “I’ve always gravitated to photography that’s more illustrative in nature, where I can create my own reality — with a twist.”

Obeying that inclination has served the Paris-born photographer well.

One day in his New York studio, having just shot a series of cosmetic ads for Prescriptives (Tcherevkoff is internationally recognized for his skill at creating visual metaphors for clients including Canon, L’Oreal, Maybelline and Valentino), he happened to glance at a photo of a leaf he’d used in the shoot.

“The print was lying upside down on a table,” he recounts, “and I said — although no one was listening to me — ‘Hey, that looks like a shoe!’”

Sascha Hüttenhain was born in 1973 in the german town of Siegen. He has been living and working there ever since. Photography has been his profession since 1998. He collected most of his experience as an assistance photographer for 2 years. Meanwhile, Sascha has opened his own professional studio and also work a lecturer at photography seminars. More images here.

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If you're an artist and find here images of your art you want to be removed, just tell me and I'll do it immediately. I try to ask for permission always if artist is alive and there's a way to contact, bot not always is possible and there are things I think worth to be known.

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